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My Tablets.

I take my tablets for Morbus Parkinson four times a day. I am not a good patient I get myself into a tether when the shakes take over or when I freeze, it seems as if something has put on the brakes too heavy. Helping my wife as well as I can with the daily routine of keeping the house clean and tidy. I am also the keeper of the machines. The refrigerator, the washing machine, no real problem but when a stupid electric light bulb goes out for good I cannot get up on steps any more. Afraid of falling off and hurting myself have to get a friend in. Thank goodness for friends. My lovely wife is two years older than I and I am eighty-five; she has her problems and also has to take her medication. We both use a plastic container, which holds our tablets for a whole week. We control each other to make sure that we do not overdose ourselves. I was just turned fifty when the Doctors diagnosed Morbus Parkinson. Owing to the tablets I had to stop driving the car. My wife is my Chauffeuse and we try to get out once a day. How much longer she will be able to drive we do not know it will have to be taxi rides from then on. I started off with tablets of Madopar it replaces the dopamine that comes from the brain. I have five other tablets to take over the course of the day. Now my Parkinson or leva dopa tablet has been replaced with Sinemet. For those medically interested each tablet contains 200/50 milligrams of leva dopa, I take these four times a day.

I have problems dropping off to sleep again the answer a sleeping tablet. Stomach problems and the tablet Ulcusan helps. I am a sweet tooth and take another tablet to help against fat. I sometimes think that I must rattle with all of the tablets over the course of each day. One tablet that I would miss is the tablet for pain a tablet called Movalis. This is what helps against the pain caused by the stiffening of my muscles.

As you may see tablets are one of my topics of conversation, I feel compelled to talk about them. I know that it is not a brilliant topic for writing about but it might help other Parkies to feel better about knowing that they are not alone with their problems about the house and the restrictions caused by the medication. There are I am sorry to say many of us and with the years there will be more. No real progress has been made and no miracle tablet has appeared on the market, this has been written by your scribbler Bern.